Hi, I have just gotten speakup talking on an arm based netbook called the webbook. It runs Ubuntu, but not quite the standard version. Espeak kind of works, but I have issues with the audio device on this particular machine. Regards, Willem On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Robert cole wrote: > I heard about the Raspberry Pi probably six months ago (estimating) on the > Linux Action Show. If I am able, I definitely want to pick one (or more) up > when they are shipped in cases. > > It is definitely something worth looking into. > > I told my wife (who doesn't know much about tech) that I was going to buy a > Raspberry Pi, and she said, "Why do you want to eat a raspberry pie?" I love > getting her with tech things like that. <smile> > > On 02/21/2012 08:32 AM, John Heim wrote: >> Speakup works on the Geode by NSC. That's the chip in my Soekris 4801. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" >> <tyler at tysdomain.com> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 7:02 PM >> Subject: Re: Anyone thought about raspberry pie? >> >> >> I think you are a bit to optomistic. Because speakup works on Debian or >> arch doesn't mean that it'll work on arm. It's a different architecture. >> Just figured I'd throw that out there. >> On 2/20/2012 5:52 PM, Kyle wrote: >>> From the website: >>> >>> What Linux distros will be supported at launch? >>> >>> Fedora, Debian and ArchLinux will be supported from the start. We hope to >>> see support from other distros later. (Because of issues with newer >>> releases of Ubuntu and the ARM processor we are using, Ubuntu can?t commit >>> to support Raspberry Pi at the moment.) You will be able to download >>> distro images from us as soon as the Raspberry Pi is released, and we will >>> also be selling pre-loaded SD cards shortly after release. >>> >>> So if Arch and Debian are supported, Speakup modules or kernels compiled >>> with Speakup should run without issues. Some software speech synthesizers >>> may have memory issues, but eSpeak is sure to run, as it has an extremely >>> low memory requirement. >>> >>> On a side note, I really want one of these things , and will likely >>> purchase one once the cases are available. Then I can try to get Talking >>> Arch running on it. I also wonder how easy it would be to get bluetooth >>> running on something like this. It looks like it would pair well with a >>> bluetooth keyboard and become a nice little portable computer. This looks >>> more and more like a fun little project to work on for very little money. >>> And with the right software, it will work better than most of those >>> notetaker thingies that still cost 100 times as much as this baby, and >>> that some people still buy for some reason. Smile. >>> ~Kyle >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
